Film
Where Is Mavis Beacon, the Woman Who Taught Us to Type?
A filmmaker and a programmer search for the model behind the iconic 1987 education software persona in a new documentary.
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News
Researchers Restore First Recording of Computer Music, Made in Alan Turing’s Lab
The 1951 recording of three songs played on Turing's computer has been restored to its intended sound.
Art
70 Years of Glitchy Computer History Turned Into Music
Late at night in Great Britain's National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, some of the world's oldest computers awoke from mechanical slumber.
Art
Can Computers Interpret Art?
Novice Art Blogger records the impressions of a computer encountering abstract and representational art from the Tate's digitized collection for the first time.
Art
Trompe l'Tweet: The Twitter-Bot World @Horse_ebooks Left Behind
There's an Ancient Greek story that many art lovers know, from the 5th century BCE. Zeuxis and Parrhasius were known as the best painters of the time, so the citizens held a contest to determine who indeed was the best. At that time, the value of painting was in its re-creation of reality. A paintin
Art
Deep Blue vs. Kasparov: Machine's Triumph Over Man
The 1997 six-game match between Garry Kasparov — arguably the top chess player of all time — and IBM's Deep Blue computer was an epochal moment, our blockbuster modernization of John Henry against the train. But it's not obvious fodder for theater.
Art
These Computer Microchip Drawings Are Amazingly Intricate Abstractions
A few weeks ago, I went to the Museum of Modern Art to finally see Trisha Donnelly's Artist's Choice show. Donnelly is the tenth artist to participate in the series, which involves the museum allowing someone to dig around in its collection and create an exhibition out of whatever pieces he or she l
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Here's Looking at You, Kyle McDonald
In a project that was either a canny statement about surveillance and consumer culture or just plain creepy [http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/7302392496/file-this-art-project-under-things-that-are-creepy], artist Kyle Macdonald staged a "photographic intervention" on public computers in Apple stor